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Popular journals update

In the most recent version of the most-often cited journals on Wikipedia page, The Lichenologist has moved up to position #130. Making its first appearance on the "top" page, The Bryologist (which also published many lichen-related articles) is at position #225. Esculenta (talk) 17:50, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

That's impressive! And it shows how much work you've done (since you're the primary driver of this project) since we started the task force. MeegsC (talk) 19:18, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I imagine Australasian Lichenology will make an appearance too after I publish a few hundred Oz-related species articles currently on the backburner. Esculenta (talk) 19:22, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

The Lives of Lichens

Just received my copy of this new (2024) publication by Robert Lücking and Toby Spribille... looks very interesting and well put together! It'll be a useful up-to-date source for the lichen article rewrite. Esculenta (talk) 23:25, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Just got a copy too! And yes, looks very interesting... MeegsC (talk) 13:55, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

1001

... is how many articles we now have in the category Category:Lichen genera, meaning there's only about 50 left to complete all of them! I'll probably make a "To-do" link to a progress page with a table containing the rest of the redlinks. Esculenta (talk) 21:17, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

... 1010 ... Esculenta (talk) 02:11, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

... 1020 ... Esculenta (talk) 23:51, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Now at 1023 genera. After compiling the remaining redlinked genera at Outline of lichens, as well as undocumented genus redlinks from several higher taxa articles (including a couple of family article updates I'm working on but have not yet published), I've made a list of the remaining redlinks here. Now I haven't yet verified that these are all lichen genera with certainty (some of them might be genera of lichenicolous fungi), but I think it's clear that the number of lichen genera has risen to about 1100 (rather than my guess of about 1050) since Lücking et al. published their lichen taxa compilation and update in 2016/2017. More and more of the remaining genera are "difficult" for whatever reason, e.g. their taxonomic validity is not universally agreed on by the main sources used for taxonomy in this project. Mostly I've been avoiding creating these in favour of the "easier" ones, but now that I have a page, I'll start adding notes about the difficult genera and where the taxonomic disagreements are. Esculenta (talk) 18:57, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

... 1030 ... Esculenta (talk) 18:16, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

... 1040 ... Esculenta (talk) 01:42, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

... 1050 ... with about 75 redlinks still to investigate. Esculenta (talk) 01:07, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

... 1060 ... Esculenta (talk) 02:46, 27 October 2024 (UTC)